(intransitive) To emit a short, high-pitched sound. / (intransitive, slang) To inform, to squeal. / (transitive) To speak or sound in a high-pitched manner.

(obsolete) A body of troops drawn up in a square. / (military, historical, army) A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers.

(transitive) To divide up into squadrons.

The form of writing used in ancient Rome for inscriptions.

(idiomatic) To squint very much, as though one's eyes were directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails.

(military) A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode. / A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc. / (mining) A kind of slow match or safety fuse.

To make a sound like a small explosion. / (colloquial, dated, transitive, intransitive) To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute.

(literally) A firework that has been wet and therefore fails to go off correctly. / (idiomatic, by extension) Anything that doesn’t work properly, or fails to come up to expectations; a dud.

(mathematics) A matrix having the same number of rows as columns.

a short twisting or wiggling line or mark / (informal) the tilde / an illegible scrawl